He wore tie-dye t-shirts, bells on his ankles, and he did not wear shoes.

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One of the defining moments of Mehmet's journey to the Kurdish region is when he washes out the dye.

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That, he says, should be enough to make dye-sensitised cells competitive with silicon.

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He was some long-haired, tie-dye wearing, hippy liberal, right?

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As is his style, Dye brought along one of his Belgian shepherds for company as he stalked and mapped out the new road.

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Using this technique doubled the efficiency of Dr Kamat's cell from 5% to 10% at ultraviolet wavelengths and he reckons it would create similar increases in efficiency in both plastic and dye-based cells.

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Leslie Dye was taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex, after he was stabbed in the neck by a customer in May 2003.

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Though he guessed that she was no older than thirty, her pale demeanor and sodden dye job had consigned her to an eternal middle age.

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He takes time out of his busy schedule for an interview with World Cafe host David Dye.

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But he also argued that traditional angiograms, in which a catheter is used to inject contrast dye before an X-ray is taken, actually kill one out of 1, 000 patients.

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